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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

With the final Harry Potter movie opening this weekend, we've come at last to the final chapter (zing!) in a long, beautiful friendship. Assuming your friends like to make movies messing with your favorite books, I mean. (Do NOT get John started, guys. Just...don't.)

Ahem.

So, fellow fans, feast your eyes on some of the best Potter Sweets ever to grace our Muggle coil!

Yeesh. Would you believe I'm only halfway through my Potter Sweets? Well, you know what that means: double feature! So tune in next week for more, and if you made a Sweets-worthy Potter cake this weekend, be sure to send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.

I have to admit I've (yet?) to get into Harry Potter, but even this muggle thinks these are great. I really like the Lego Harry Potter one. What a great idea for converting things into a more regular rectangular cake shape for easier baking and decorating - and so much better than the CCC attempts out there.

@ Jill, it was a rune I found on a Harry Potter fan site, supposedly from a rune sheet from another book by Rowling perhaps? Not sure, I am looking for it again, as I didn't save my links from the internet. Hopefully, it's not a rune that doesn't fit the story.

I agree completely with John. I hate when they make books I love into movies. First, because there's too much change from the way things actually went and second because I have the characters just right in my head and they rarely match the actors that get picked to play the parts.

I can't believe there are no more Harry Potter books or movies to look forward to! Did anyone else go to the midnight premier/Those cakes are beautiful! I especially love the cupcakes. BTW, Jen...you like Harry Potter, right? Well there are these two hilarious musicals made by Starkid Potter. I hope you like them! Here's a link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmwM_AKeMCk

I totally agree with John. Also, I don't really think cake would make a great Horcrux for two reasons: 1) The cake would probably get eaten or decay (Unless it was made by a wreckorator. Then it would just sit arround and collect dust.) and 2) Killing someone when there's cake nearby isn't very nice. The poor cake is likely to be traumatized. JK... Rowling! ;P

-Μαρία Βάγκνερ, who hopes to celebrate the 23st of Jluy by finishing reading the Harry Potter series for the 23nd time.

i like the acceptance letter with the hagrid cake. and being the nit-picker that i am, i must point out that the howler on the deathly hallows cake is from the second book/movie. if you look closely you can see a reference to harry & ron taking the flying car.

the symbol is the deathly hallows symbol (line= elder wand, circle= resurection stone, triangle= invisability cloak). The letter on top WAS a howler, if you read the little print it quotes the letter with mentions of "stealing that car" and being "absolutely disgusted." Weird because that's from the second one :P

All of these cakes are beyond fabulous (I can't pick a favorite!) My future husband will be totes annoyed because I will try to sneak Snape's quote on my wedding cake! (Always <3)

These. Were. AWESOME. I can't wait to see more!! (I'm also getting ideas because I want to throw a Harry Potter themed party for my son. If no one is going to throw me one, I guess I have to do it for someone else! heh)

Also, I would LOVE to hear John's take on the movie. Seriously. What a great discussion *that* would be.

The cake wasn't Deathly Hallows themed, it was a collection of all sorts of Harry Potter stuff. Bertie Bots beans, Gringott's coins (gold and silver), a Slytherin scarf, and the obvious things you see in the picture. Glad everyone likes it!

I am especially astonished by the detail work on the books & parchment in so many of these cakes. How is it possible that these are cake? And who knew that Hagrid could look so huggably adorable? I want a stuffed Hagrid that looks just like that! Thanks for the H.P. collection.

Yes, please, I WANT to get John started!! I do enjoy the movies, but I'm seriously grateful it's been four years or so (if that's even possible) since I read HP7, because even then I had "issues" at the theatre. And I'm not somebody who anybody dares go see movies with!!!

Word Verification: eprot (I'm NOT making that up. I cannot believe that's my WV!!!What happens when a wreckerator tries to make Jen's Epbot robot.

For the person who was wondering about the symbol on the Deathly Hallows cake, it is the "deathly hallows". There are 3 hallowed object, the cape of invisibility (the triangle), the resurrection stone (the circle), and the wand (the straight line).

I think this is my fave entry---although it didn't make me laugh nearly as much as the others. I'm so sad that Harry Potter is over...after the books I looked forward to the movies...now I'll be looking forward to next week's Sweets...Love that sorting hat cake and the little Hedwig...adorable!

(And I won't get started on the...misrepresentation of things in the movie either. I'll just rant under my breath every time I watch them with my hubby...)

You weren't wrong about the horcrux? cake...you didn't say that the cake was entirely from DH. You only said the symbols were from DH, and asked if a cake could be a horcrux. The basilisk fang is also from another book, so there were several books featured on that cake.

I've gotta ask...what ARE the main parts of the cake supposed to be...wheels of cheese? Teak salad bowls? I really can't figure it out.

Also, not to be a party pooper (ha ha, I said poop), but the sorting hat on the second cake kinda looks like a tall, creepy pile of poop with a face. Perhaps if it had been a lighter color, like a tan.

@Yuki J - the first HP book is actually pretty poorly written (perhaps the British version is better than the American version?) but the writing does improve with each book. You have to remember that Rowling's children were much younger when the first book came out, so it was written for young children. As Harry (and her children) grew older, the books were written for increasingly older audiences. By the time he was in high-school the the books were written on more of a high-school reading level.

Yes, the Howler was from the second book, but you must remember that the horcruxes are throughout most of the books, not just the last one. All the cakes were awesome. I'm sad that HP books and movies are over, but they will still live on!

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